Let's Talk About Ice Cream.

On Sunday,

I was at church with my aunts.

There was a beautiful old lady there,

who was taking care of her handsome old frail husband.

I kept watching her in awe.

During the third meeting,

this lady raised her hand to make a comment.

She said that her mother had been a lovely woman.

When she was in a group of women

and the talk turned to saying unkind things 

about other people,

she would say,

"Let's talk about ice cream!"

And I thought,

Maybe one day I could be the kind of person

with so much love

that I would rather talk about ice cream

than say something unkind.

Maybe I really could feel that way

and it wouldn't be preachy or false.

...

I want to reverence people.

Reverence is

profound respect

mingled with love.

(From David O. McKay)

Usually, it is an emotion reserved for 

how we feel about God.

But I can only dream of how rich life would be 

if I respected everyone for the divine parts of them

and if I loved them for it.

Those feelings would mingle 

into a sense of 

profound

holy

awe.

It's you I like,

not the things you wear,

not the way you do your hair,

but it's you I like.

The way you are right now,

the way down deep inside you.

Not the things that hide you,

not your toys--they're just beside you.

-Mister Rogers